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It was a busy week but I did the tests that I wanted to last night and I'll show my results in this post and the one below. I didn't have too many dirty records laying around so I went to the shop and got a few $2 records in ok shape so I can do a few more samples.
I find a lot of what I did to be mildly conclusive at best but I'm hoping for some critique and feedback. This is what I did.
1.). Record 1min 30s of my first Sample Record from the second track in the middle of the record. I preferred the 2nd track instead of the first because it being closer to the null points. I can't really tell you I can hear a sound change from any of the tracks but I know that properly setup the middle of a side should theoretically should have lower distortion. Please tell me if this is dumb. I also took a smaller sample because if I'm able to get the Deltawave null test to work I assume shorter tracks are easier to match.
2.) I cleaned the record on my Kladio. I set the clean cycle to 5 minutes. I have other ways to clean records, this is just my preferred way. I believe it does a good job (I have not tested yet, that's what I'm trying to do here) subjectively. Also, I love the ease of use. My loricraft is more work to clean although it works great in combo. I just wanted to keep it simple for this experiment. So 5 min clean and 5 min dry.
3.) I recorded the same track. I trim both tracks and best I could to match.
4.) I look at the statistics and compared.
5.) I declicked in Isotope RX. I'm going to also declick in Click Repair.
6.) I put them into Deltawave and compared the difference.
All this data will be in other posts.
The record I used was Earthy by the Prestige All Stars. This copy has not been cleaned to my knowledge but it's from 1957 and I am not the original owner as I wasn't born yet. It had visual evidence of dust and is what I would call a VG+ but maybe I'm too generous.
The problem I overlooked until later is that this is a mono record which I kinda forgot. I didn't use my mono cartridge though, I used a stereo cartridge.
My chain of gear went like this.
Lyra Kleos -> Technics 1210G Table and Arm -> Manley Steelhead -> Lynx Hilo -> Mac Mini -> Amadeus
I have other options but this is my pretty standard chain for digitizing. I do not have available a non RIAA phono preamp but am going to get a WaxWing sooner or later.
I'm going to use mostly stereo records from now on.
I find a lot of what I did to be mildly conclusive at best but I'm hoping for some critique and feedback. This is what I did.
1.). Record 1min 30s of my first Sample Record from the second track in the middle of the record. I preferred the 2nd track instead of the first because it being closer to the null points. I can't really tell you I can hear a sound change from any of the tracks but I know that properly setup the middle of a side should theoretically should have lower distortion. Please tell me if this is dumb. I also took a smaller sample because if I'm able to get the Deltawave null test to work I assume shorter tracks are easier to match.
2.) I cleaned the record on my Kladio. I set the clean cycle to 5 minutes. I have other ways to clean records, this is just my preferred way. I believe it does a good job (I have not tested yet, that's what I'm trying to do here) subjectively. Also, I love the ease of use. My loricraft is more work to clean although it works great in combo. I just wanted to keep it simple for this experiment. So 5 min clean and 5 min dry.
3.) I recorded the same track. I trim both tracks and best I could to match.
4.) I look at the statistics and compared.
5.) I declicked in Isotope RX. I'm going to also declick in Click Repair.
6.) I put them into Deltawave and compared the difference.
All this data will be in other posts.
The record I used was Earthy by the Prestige All Stars. This copy has not been cleaned to my knowledge but it's from 1957 and I am not the original owner as I wasn't born yet. It had visual evidence of dust and is what I would call a VG+ but maybe I'm too generous.
The problem I overlooked until later is that this is a mono record which I kinda forgot. I didn't use my mono cartridge though, I used a stereo cartridge.
My chain of gear went like this.
Lyra Kleos -> Technics 1210G Table and Arm -> Manley Steelhead -> Lynx Hilo -> Mac Mini -> Amadeus
I have other options but this is my pretty standard chain for digitizing. I do not have available a non RIAA phono preamp but am going to get a WaxWing sooner or later.
I'm going to use mostly stereo records from now on.
